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Persimmons

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Second persimmon (variety is Rojo Brilliante) eaten. The flesh had definitely softened and sweetened somewhat. Mrs Bear quite enjoyed. I feel a bit "meh" about it. Roll on the third one, which I might peel as the contrast between the harder texture of skin and the softer flesh weirds me out.
 
Squarebear said:
Second persimmon (variety is Rojo Brilliante) eaten. The flesh had definitely softened and sweetened somewhat. Mrs Bear quite enjoyed. I feel a bit "meh" about it. Roll on the third one, which I might peel as the contrast between the harder texture of skin and the softer flesh weirds me out.
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I bought a kilo punnet of six or seven in Lidl yesterday on offer at 1.49€. I think this thread prompted me.
We have various fruits chopped up on top of bran cereal for breakfast, so a persimmon went into the mix this morning. As you said, a bit 'meh'.
 
On a slight variation, has anyone tried dragon fruit? Looks intriguing but again … meh.
 
Pegojack said:
Squarebear said:
Second persimmon (variety is Rojo Brilliante) eaten. The flesh had definitely softened and sweetened somewhat. Mrs Bear quite enjoyed. I feel a bit "meh" about it. Roll on the third one, which I might peel as the contrast between the harder texture of skin and the softer flesh weirds me out.
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I bought a kilo punnet of six or seven in Lidl yesterday on offer at 1.49€. I think this thread prompted me.
We have various fruits chopped up on top of bran cereal for breakfast, so a persimmon went into the mix this morning. As you said, a bit 'meh'.
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Well I like them so there.
 
The last persimmon had been sitting in the fruit bowl for what seemed like forever. It was well past its "eat by" date and had begun to look a bit bruised. I figured it was destined for the green bin.

Well, last night we were watching "Surgeons: at the edge of life". During a particularly toe-curling scene showing someone's spinal column being fiddled with, Mrs Bear (who, to put it mildly, is somewhat of a stranger to the fruit knife) was drawn by her inner surgeon to go to the kitchen, returning with the final persimmon, perfectly dissected.

Despite its outwardly iffy appearance it was really, really nice; juicy, sweet, flavoursome. Okay, we had to sling the soggier slices but this third one has shown me the light.

I dunno where it sits in my list of fruit likes compared to a good apple/orange/nectarine but I can at least see where Darran was coming from in his initial praise of a fruit I previously had no knowledge of.
 
The misses grabbed a box of them from Costco last week and I have to say they were the best I've had. Super tasty and absolutely huge.
 
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